1. Forums
  2. Mystery Shopping Discussion

Does MSing increase your SPAM?

August 19, 2014 02:52PM
I'm not talking about emails from schedulers.

I get a ton of spam on the account that I ONLY use for MSing. Where are the spammers getting this address? Is there any way to cut down on the amount of spam I'm getting?

AndrewTX
Certifiable
Reply
Log In
x

Create an Account or Log In

Membership is free. Simply choose your username, type in your email address, and choose a password. You immediately get full access to the forum.

Already a member? Log In.

August 19, 2014 05:15PM
I also have a separate email account for MSing and I receive NO spam - ever. I created it about 6 months ago and changed it with all the MSCs. THAT was a pain in the butt! I have never used it anywhere else but the MSCs.

What service provider do you use for email? Can you make some changes to your filters? In the mean time, just keep clicking on your "report spam" button I guess.

There are two types of people in this world: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
Reply
August 19, 2014 05:51PM
I did the same thing as LJ, switched from Yahoo to Gmail, and I'm not getting any spam. Gmail occasionally sends an MS email to spam but that's to be expected.
Reply
August 19, 2014 06:55PM
My fear would be signing up to a FAKE MSC.

I am always concerned that a new MS company could pay Prophet, Sassie or just clone the HTML to appear to be a legitimate MS company and spam people with really good bonused assignments that are believable and convince them to fill out the extended profile for identity fraud. I bet for the right shop oppertunity to a great high end chain with a $30 bonus and a due date of 48 hours, mabe 1/3 of shoppers would leap before they really questioned the new shop, if it's site was using a known MS software package.
Reply
August 19, 2014 08:59PM
I never get spam from my MS email. You should clean your cache and cookies out... pronto.

O.o o.O

Happily shopping New England and beyond!!!!!
Reply
August 19, 2014 09:47PM
I get one or two a month..maybe. I use my personal email a/c for shopping.
Reply
August 20, 2014 04:47AM
I've never gotten spam on the email address I sign up for MSCs with, but I once did three new home shops and had to give different contact information for them. One of them got my gmail address and I started getting spam almost immediately after that shop. The odd thing was, all three shops were for the same builder. I had never been spammed on my gmail account, ever, before I used it on that shop.

Not happy about it either.

Time to build a bigger bridge.
Reply
August 20, 2014 06:05AM
I use my gmail account for most of my mystery shops and don't receive any spam. Sometimes the MSC emails show up as spam though, lol!

I also use my hotmail account for a handful of mystery shops. That account gets a crap ton of spam, but I also use that email address for other non-business things so I'm not sure where the spam originated.
Reply
August 20, 2014 06:10AM
A little, but nothing to fret about. Once a shop is finished and the subsequent follow-up calls/e-mails are recorded, I tell them that I am no longer interested/unsubscribe as any person would do. MSN immediately throws fake MS offers in my junk mail.
Reply
August 20, 2014 07:47AM
About a year into my mystery shopping career, I decided to see where in fact the spam was coming from. I registered my own domain with google, and created a catch all email address on their server (was free with the domain). Started using a different email address for each MSC. (marketforce@mydomain.com, beyondhello@mydomain.com, etc..) That way if I started getting spammed, I would know exactly where it originated. Thing is, I never got any spam to any of the MSC addresses. I get an ungodly amount of shops offers every day, but so far, almost two years later, no spam.

Of course, it created a nightmare when I got my MSPA certification. It wouldn't validate it with the MSC unless I used the same email address I was certified under (at least in Sassie).

************************
Some times you just have to turn around, give a little smile, toss the match, set the bridge ablaze, and walk away.


Silver Certified on the Carolina Coast. You want fries with that?
Reply
Sorry, only registered users may post in this forum.

Click here to login